International Business and Economics University of Hohenheim

Overview

The International Business and Economics program from University of Hohenheim place great emphasis on addressing current developments in order to provide you with a solid theoretical knowledge base and methods that you can use when starting your international career or continuing your academic training as a doctoral candidate.

Objectives

• Learn to analyze transnational business processes and global product chains.
• Prepare for management functions in a career in a knowledge-intensive and project-oriented global economy.
• Apply cutting-edge theoretical and econometrical models to real problems of multinational companies and institutions/NGOs.
• Think and act in an interdisciplinary way to solve challenging management and economic problems in a team.
• Obtain academic skills and soft skills like teamwork, social entrepreneurship, or rhetoric and negotiation techniques.
• Take an international perspective, learn a foreign language, and link different cultures.

Occupational fields

With a view to research, we train you to build up sound methodological knowledge. After graduation, you will be able to work empirically on new questions. These skills enable you to apply for doctoral programs. Thematically, the following specializations are possible:

• International Business
• International Management & Innovation
• International Economics

With a view to practice, we prepare you for management or analyst positions, e.g.:

• International Business Analyst
• Management / Business Consultant
• Economic Counsel

Potential employers and career fields are:

• Start-up companies
• Multinational corporations
• International organizations, including NGOs and
• Service companies